euro

CEFRA2

/ˈjʊəɹəʊ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The money used by many countries in the European Union.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A coin with a face value of one euro.

Examples

  • At the market such cheese costs only five euro something per kilo.

  • Before, when we still had guilders, everything was much cheaper than now with the euro.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈjʊɹoʊ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Abbreviation of European, in any sense.

  2. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

  3. Any of species Macropus robustus of macropods; a wallaroo.

More examples

In context

  • The exchange rate of the dollar versus the euro has declined.

  • euro style pad

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Origin

noun

The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.